Gardiner, John Eliot > Chabrier, Emmanuel

50 Best Overtures [3 CDs]

3 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-05-22

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; La scala di seta; Il Signor Bruschino; Tancredi; Overture to L'italiana in Algeri; Overture to Guillaume Tell; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro;...
Conductors: Giulini, Carlo Maria; Gelmetti, Gianluigi; Gardelli, Lamberto; Davis, Colin; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Muti, Riccardo; Marriner, Sir Neville; Rodzinski, Artur; Lanchbery, John; Kempe, Rudolf; Serafi...

Chabrier: España, etc / Gardiner, Wiener Philharmoniker

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1996-11-19

Works: Emmanuel Chabrier: Suite pastorale, for orchestra; Habañera, for piano (or orchestra); España, rhapsody for orchestra (also vers. for 2 pianos); Larghetto, for horn & orchestra; Gwendolin...
Performers: Janezic, Ronald
Conductors: Gardiner, John Eliot
Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

[From a comparative review with Gwendoline; Penin/Slovak Phil. Orch.] "...In sum, Gardiner give us Chabrier at his most brilliant, if hardly his most lovable -...continue...